J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont du Passy, Paris 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont du Passy, Paris’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
Pont du Passy, Paris 1826
D23321
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 39
Pencil on white laid paper, 153 x 103 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Passy’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘39’ bottom left, inverted, ‘266’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 39’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked into the top of this page a small study of the bridge at Passy which crossed the River Seine a little to the west of Paris. There are numerous pages featuring the riverside of Paris in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction. Turner made numerous studies of this stretch of the Seine over the course of his career, culminating in an illustration for the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impression T04719.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont du Passy, Paris 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-pont-du-passy-paris-r1185161, accessed 18 September 2024.